In this article, Abed Awad analyzes an appellate decision and discuss a domestic violence case wherein the husband claimed it was in his religious rights to force nonconsensual sexual relations on his wife.  This perception is woefully wrong - Muslim culture and Islamic law does not condone violence against women,  and in fact historically Muslim women have fared far better than their European counterparts in marriage and divorce, property ownership, education, and societal influence.  Click here to learn more.